Shut down in less then 500 hits. That's pretty speedy. I suppose people were watching that domain name, but still... you can't always hide as well as you think you can on the Internet.
"'It's potentially dangerous,' Schnall [president of feminist.com] said. 'Although the site only got about 500 hits, if even one person got the idea to go out and rape someone, it's terrible.'"
I do not disagree with the removal; it amounts to conspiracy to commit horrible crimes. Interesting point, though:
You think the internet is so large you can hide anything in it? Date Rape Site Taken Down: "Web hosting company MyInternet.com deactivated Daterape.org, which described itself as 'a one-stop shop for all your date rape needs.'"
(BTW, today is not a "Jon Katz is OK" day, in case you couldn't tell.)
Go ahead and browse through the essay. See if you caught what I caught. (Nobody did on slashdot on the day the first part came out.) Jon Katz's entire essay was completely tainted by one gigantic mistake, one that is unfortunately all-too-common in this sort of debate.
Some days I think Jon Katz is OK, some days I think he's a complete idiot. In his recent two part essay, In A Virtual World, Who Owns Ideas? (Part 2), he has successfully wasted a lot of his time.
Another "CallTheShots"? Or not? Who can tell? I think the Internet startups are taking marketroid-talking-without-content to bold new levels. I hope the VC's are eating it up, because I can't say it impresses me any.
From Scripting News, OnePage. So, what exactly is that? Read it answer for yourself. Not very helpful, is it?
From the looks of the readership statistics, it looks like my estimate of losing half of my "audience" in a week was approximentally correct. 